Biography
Hailing from Arkansas, this accomplished female vocal quartet cut sides for Stax Records throughout the final years of the 1960s. Jeanne Dolphus and her sister Delores, known on stage as Dee, made up the core of the group alongside two additional singers whose names were never disclosed. Jeanne also performed and wrote under the names Jeanne Darling and Mary Jean Cotton, ultimately placing thirteen compositions with BMI across those three aliases. Before arriving at Stax the foursome had already appeared on disc as the Dolphus Sisters for Avant Records. Isaac Hayes and David Porter composed and supervised the first pair of Volt releases, both issued on the Stax subsidiary: the 1967 coupling “How Can You Mistreat the One You Love” backed with “That Man of Mine,” followed in 1968 by “Soul Girl,” yet none of these tracks managed to chart. For the third single, “What Will Later on Be Like,” issued toward the end of 1968, the label turned to Homer Banks and Alan Jones. Banks then teamed with Don Davis and Clyde Wilson, the latter also known as Steve Mancha, to create the May 1969 release “It’s Unbelievable (How You Control My Soul),” a forceful performance backed by a reworking of Carla Thomas’s “I Like What You’re Doing to Me.” Volt put out the final Jeanne & the Darlings single in October 1969, but “It’s Time to Pay for the Fun (We’ve Had)” failed to generate any notable response, after which the group disappeared from the roster.
Singles
